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20 U.S.C. § 5811 — Purpose
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The purpose of this chapter is to provide a framework for meeting the National Education Goals established by subchapter I of this chapter by—
(1) promoting coherent, nationwide, systemic education reform;
(2) improving the quality of learning and teaching in the classroom and in the workplace;
(3) defining appropriate and coherent Federal, State, and local roles and responsibilities for education reform and lifelong learning;
(4) establishing valid and reliable mechanisms for—
(A) building a broad national consensus on American education reform;
(B) assisting in the development and certification of high-quality, internationally competitive content and student performance standards; and
(C) assisting in the development and certification of high-quality assessment measures that reflect the internationally competitive content and student performance standards;
(5) supporting new initiatives at the Federal, State, local, and school levels to provide equal educational opportunity for all students to meet high academic and occupational skill standards and to succeed in the world of employment and civic participation;
(6) providing a framework for the reauthorization of all Federal education programs by—
(A) creating a vision of excellence and equity that will guide all Federal education and related programs;
(B) providing for the establishment of high-quality, internationally competitive content and student performance standards and strategies that all students will be expected to achieve;
(C) encouraging and enabling all State educational agencies and local educational agencies to develop comprehensive improvement plans that will provide a coherent framework for the implementation of reauthorized Federal education and related programs in an integrate
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The purpose of this chapter is to provide a framework for meeting the National Education Goals established by subchapter I of this chapter by—
(1) promoting coherent, nationwide, systemic education reform;
(2) improving the quality of learning and teaching in the classroom and in the workplace;
(3) defining appropriate and coherent Federal, State, and local roles and responsibilities for education reform and lifelong learning;
(4) establishing valid and reliable mechanisms for—
(A) building a broad national consensus on American education reform;
(B) assisting in the development and certification of high-quality, internationally competitive content and student performance standards; and
(C) assisting in the development and certification of high-quality assessment measures that reflect the internationally competitive content and student performance standards;
(5) supporting new initiatives at the Federal, State, local, and school levels to provide equal educational opportunity for all students to meet high academic and occupational skill standards and to succeed in the world of employment and civic participation;
(6) providing a framework for the reauthorization of all Federal education programs by—
(A) creating a vision of excellence and equity that will guide all Federal education and related programs;
(B) providing for the establishment of high-quality, internationally competitive content and student performance standards and strategies that all students will be expected to achieve;
(C) encouraging and enabling all State educational agencies and local educational agencies to develop comprehensive improvement plans that will provide a coherent framework for the implementation of reauthorized Federal education and related programs in an integrated fashion that effectively educates all children to prepare them to participate fully as workers, parents, and citizens;
(D) providing resources to help individual schools, including those serving students with high needs, develop and implement comprehensive improvement plans; and
(E) promoting the use of technology to enable all students to achieve the National Education Goals;
(7) stimulating the development and adoption of a voluntary national system of skill standards and certification to serve as a cornerstone of the national strategy to enhance workforce skills; and
(8) assisting every elementary and secondary school that receives funds under this chapter to actively involve parents and families in supporting the academic work of their children at home and in providing parents with skills to advocate for their children at school.
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**(a) Establishment of procedures** Any State educational agency, State agency, or local educational agency that receives assistance under this subchapter shall establish and maintain procedures in accordance with this section to ensure that children with disabilities and their parents are guaranteed procedural safeguards with respect to the provision of a free appropriate public education by such agencies.
**(b) Types of procedures** The procedures required by this section shall include the following:
(1) An opportunity for the parents of a child with a disability to examine all records relating to such child and to participate in meetings with respect to the identification, evaluation, and educational placement of the child, and the provision of a free appropriate public education to such child, and to obtain an independent educational evaluation of the child.
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(A) Procedures to protect the rights of the child whenever the parents of the child are not known, the agency cannot, after reasonable efforts, locate the parents, or the child is a ward of the State, including the assignment of an individual to act as a surrogate for the parents, which surrogate shall not be an employee of the State educational agency, the local educational agency, or any other agency that is involved in the education or care of the child. In the case of—
(i) a child who is a ward of the State, such surrogate may alternatively be appointed by the judge overseeing the child’s care provided that the surrogate meets the requirements of this paragraph; and
(ii) an unaccompanied homeless youth as defined in [section 11434a(6) of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section11434a/6&num=0&edition=prelim), the local educational agency shall
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### Statutory Notes
Section, Pub. L. 101–625, title V, § 520, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4202; Pub. L. 102–389, title II, Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1587; Pub. L. 102–550, title I, § 126(b), Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3710; Pub. L. 103–227, title X, §§ 1052, 1053, Mar. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 274, 280; Pub. L. 104–330, title V, § 501(d)(2), Oct. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 4043, authorized grants for public and assisted housing youth sports programs.
#### Effective Date of Repeal
Repeal effective and applicable beginning upon Oct. 1, 1999, except as otherwise provided, with provision that Secretary may implement repeal before such date, and with savings provision, see section 503 of Pub. L. 105–276, set out as an Effective Date of 1998 Amendment note under [section 1437 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1437&num=0&edition=prelim).
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Level IV of the Executive Schedule applies to the following positions, for which the annual rate of basic pay shall be the rate determined with respect to such level under chapter 11 of title 2, as adjusted by [section 5318 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5318&num=0&edition=prelim):
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The Congress finds that—
(1) the Federal Government has a duty to provide public and other federally assisted low-income housing that is decent, safe, and free from illegal drugs;
(2) public and other federally assisted low-income housing in many areas suffers from rampant drug-related or violent crime;
(3) drug dealers are increasingly imposing a reign of terror on public and other federally assisted low-income housing tenants;
(4) the increase in drug-related and violent crime not only leads to murders, muggings, and other forms of violence against tenants, but also to a deterioration of the physical environment that requires substantial government expenditures;
(5) local law enforcement authorities often lack the resources to deal with the drug problem in public and other federally assisted low-income housing, particularly in light of the recent reductions in Federal aid to cities;
(6) the Federal Government should provide support for effective safety and security measures to combat drug-related and violent crime, primarily in and around public housing projects with severe crime problems;
(7) closer cooperation should be encouraged between public and assisted housing managers, local law enforcement agencies, and residents in developing and implementing anti-crime programs; and
(8) anti-crime strategies should be improved through the expansion of community-oriented policing initiatives.
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TITLE 20—EDUCATION
§ 5811
AMENDMENTS
2004—Subsec. (a)(9). Pub. L. 108–446 substituted ‘‘sec-
tion 1401’’ for ‘‘section 1401(a)(17)’’.
1996—Subsec. (a)(7) to (14). Pub. L. 104–134 redesig-
nated pars. (8) to (14) as (7) to (13), respectively, and
struck out former par. (7) which read as follows: ‘‘the
term ‘opportunity-to-learn standards’ means the cri-
teria for, and the basis of, assessing the sufficiency or
quality of the resources, practices, and conditions nec-
essary at each level of the education system (schools,
local educational agencies, and States) to provide all
students with an opportunity to learn the material in
voluntary national content standards or State content
standards;’’.
1994—Subsec. (a)(6). Pub. L. 103–382, § 394(f)(1)(A)(i),
substituted ‘‘section 8801’’ for ‘‘section 2891’’.
Subsec. (a)(10). Pub. L. 103–382, § 394(f)(1)(A)(ii), sub-
stituted ‘‘section 1401(a)(17)’’ for ‘‘section 1401’’.
Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 103–382, § 394(f)(1)(B), sub-
stituted ‘‘section 8801’’ for ‘‘section 2891’’.
SUBCHAPTER I—NATIONAL EDUCATION
GOALS
§ 5811. Purpose
The purpose of this subchapter is to establish
National Education Goals.
(Pub. L. 103–227, title I, § 101, Mar. 31, 1994, 108
Stat. 130.)
§ 5812. National Education Goals
The Congress declares that the National Edu-
cation Goals are the following:
(1) School readiness
(A) By the year 2000, all children in America
will start school ready to learn.
(B) The objectives for this goal are that—
(i) all children will have access to high-
quality and developmentally appropriate
preschool programs that help prepare chil-
dren for school;
(ii) every parent in the United States will
be a child’s first teacher and devote time
each day to helping such parent’s preschool
child learn, a
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